Everything about Australia-new Zealand Memorial Canberra totally explained
The
Australia-New Zealand Memorial in
Canberra,
Australia, commemorates the
relationship between New Zealand and Australia, and stands at the corner of
ANZAC Parade and Constitution Avenue, the former bisecting the Parliamentary Triangle and the latter forming the base of the triangle that represents the form of government in
Canberra, the national capital city of Australia.
Maori language: Mau tena kiwa o te kete. maku tenei
English language: Each of us at a handle of the basket
The memorial was opened on the eve of
Anzac Day (
April 24) in 2001 by the prime ministers of both countries.
Design
The two
kete or basket handles express the shared effort to achieve common goals in both peace and war, and to acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of service men and women who served shoulder-to-shoulder on foreign soil.
The paving patterns upon which the
kete handles stand represent the weaving of a basket, and represent the interweaving of lands, peoples and cultures.
Daisy Nadjungdanga from
Arnhem Land in the
Northern Territory of Australia designed the paving under the western handle;
Toi Te Rito Maihi and
Allen Wihongi from
Northland, New Zealand, designed the paving under the eastern handle. The surface of the paving is made with
Canterbury,
Coromandel and Golden Bay stone.
At the centre of the paving on each side is buried soil from
Gallipoli, the birth of the ANZAC tradition as soldiers fought together in the
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in 1915. A ceremony held on
26 February 2001 soil from
Chunuk Bair was buried in a
rimu box on the New Zealand side, while on the Australian side, soil from
Lone Pine was buried in a box made from
Australian jarrah.
Inscribed on the paving are the names of the campaigns where New Zealanders and Australians have fought together.
The memorial was designed by artist
Kingsley Baird and architects Studio of Pacific Architecture, both of
Wellington, New Zealand.
Poem
A poem by
Jenny Bornholdt is inscribed on a bronze 'boulder' under the arch on each side.
This sea we cross over
and over. Tides turning on
gold and sheep. On rain. On sand.
On earth the fallen lie
beneath. On geography. On
women standing. On peoples of
gardens and movement.
On trade and union.
This sea a bridge
of faith. This sea we are
contained and
moved by.
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